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"The instrument you heard on the 1935 cut is a mandola, played by Chick Hurt of the Prairie Ramblers. It is prominent on many...

Pretty version, and some tasteful mandolin backup.

Paul Buskirk was born in 1923, and that recording comes from 1935, I think, so it may have been someone else.

There was a good violinist in...

Belbein, thanks for your post and the thoughts behind it. I hope you have a great time at the workshop. It really is an amazing era for anyone who wants to learn about the mandolin's many...

Workshop choices/bang for the buck...Belbein, consider what it must have been like to try and learn mandolin before there were such workshops, and before there were such great players to choose...

Nice to hear some accolades for the f-hole mandolin's big brother. The acoustic archtop guitar's been a mainstay in many different kinds of music, but for reasons unknown, it's not seen so often...

I hadn't heard that Haggard number...I think it's moving, beautiful...can't think of anything that would improve it.

Oh, but there is Mandolin Content...Slim's first recording for RCA was made at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, and Jethro Burns was on it, along with Homer, Chet Atkins, and Jerry Byrd. Here's a hit from...

Fun to look at, impossible to play...for me, anyway. Adding the basic chords would be helpful to anyone working on this. .

It makes you realize why mandolin players don't try and play like Jethro...

I never mind Bob's hollerin', and I hear some Cab Calloway as well as Fats Waller in his vocalizations. Maybe they got it from Armstrong, who got it from ??????

Scott's initial point about it all...

I know and I care...you are right, Alan.

The late Ken Eidson did those transcitpions, and he had a remarkable ear. That diminished has to be a typo.

Hey, a decent copy of that show at last! A terrific New Year gift to all mandolinists and fans of Mr. Burns and Mr. Stiernberg.

A fine version of "Jethro's Tune", for sure...

Jethro said they...

I think that the late Iz had a lot to to with it, too. "Wonderful World" and "Over the Rainbow" stirred a lot of interest.

Some of us guitarists got started on the plastic ukes from Emenee that...

I'd bet that the Hot Club saw what they were doing as a lot more than trading off hot solos. The groups they heard and admired (Ellington, Armstrong, Bix, Venuti and Lang) were adept at arranging...

Lots of people went through that band over the years. Quite a spreadsheet would be needed to inventory all their comings and goings.

Nice to hear Ebo's Daughter mention Marshall Shelor, brother...

Interesting problem. Yes, it gets played way too fast, and yes, rhythm sections get trapped by the need to repeat that descending pattern to the point where it becomes a death spiral. And I think...

I first heard the term "sock" rhythm when I first heard Texas-style fiddle, as in the clip above. There's usually a "standard" guitar also present, but that good tenor guitar player has got it all...

I enjoyed that very much. You're making good music. Keep it up!

Nothing against Gramps' version, but I don't know if he's got the chords or melody right.

Try this one by Marty Grosz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTTHHH21Ew

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/arts/music/aaron-weinstein-at-the-metropolitan-room-review.html

It's nice to see this clip show up. We had way too much fun gigging with him, and still it never was enough.

During the time we did this show, we all got to see all the H&J Cornflakes...

I thought that he wrote the tune in F; I think he recorded it in 1940, maybe a couple of times? The early version I remember had a small woodwind section, with Hubert Rostaing playing clarinet. But...

Most Basie records from the late 50s on have got a mic somewhere near Freddie. "Live at the Sands-Before Frank" is a good one, as is the record he made with Herb Ellis, "Rhythm Willie". Once you tune...

SincereCorgy, the one note chord is no joke; it just hasn't made it to the mandolin...yet. Maybe you could be the innovator.

It's a great technique for rhythm guitar that Freddie Green came up...

Some of you mandolin folks enjoy archtop rhythm guitar , I know you do; that's Gene Monbeck on the Stromberg. I love the way the way he doesn't beat on the thing, and the sound that he gets. Some of...

What should we call this kind of chord simplification, Ralph...Izzification?

To the original poster who wanted to play this in a way that kids could enjoy and (I think) sing along with, I'd say,...